Musa al-Alami (mayor of Jerusalem)

Musa al-Alami (Arabic: موسى العلمي) was mayor of Jerusalem in the 19th century.

His son, Faidi al-Alami, was also mayor of the city and his grandson, another Musa al-Alami, was assistant attorney-general of Palestine under the British mandate.^[1]

References

↑ Meron Benvenisti (1996). City of Stone: The Hidden History of Jerusalem. ISBN 0-520-20768-8.

Mayors of Jerusalem

Ottoman Empire (1517–1917)	Musa al-Alami (n/a) Ahmad Agha Duzdar (1838–63) Abdelrahman al-Dajani (1863–82) Salim al-Husayni (1882–97) Yousef al-Khalidi (1899–1907) Faidi al-Alami (1907–09) Hussein al-Husayni (1909–17)

British Mandate of Palestine (1917–48)	Aref al-Dajani (1917–18) Musa al-Husayni (1918–20) Raghib al-Nashashibi (1920–34) Hussein al-Khalidi (1934–37) Daniel Auster (1937–38) Mustafa al-Khalidi (1938–44) Daniel Auster (1944–45)

West Jerusalem, Israel (1949–67)	Daniel Auster (1949–50) Zalman Shragai (1951–52) Yitzhak Kariv (1952–55) Gershon Agron (1955–59) Mordechai Ish-Shalom (1959–65) Teddy Kollek (1965–67)

East Jerusalem, Jordan (1949–67)	Anwar Khatib (1948–50) Aref al-Aref (1950–51) Hannah Atallah (1951–52) Omar Wa'ari (1952–55) Ruhi al-Khatib (1957–67)

Israel (1967–)	Teddy Kollek (1967–93) Ehud Olmert (1993–2003) Uri Lupolianski (2003–08) Nir Barkat (2008–)

Titular East Jerusalem, Palestine (1967–)	Ruhi al-Khatib (1967–94) Amin al-Majaj (1994–98) Zaki Al-Ghul (1999–)

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